AFRO-NETS> Nestle Supports Right to Food? (2)

[Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>]

Nestle Supports Right to Food? (2)
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From: <aos@hiak.no>

I agree 100% with Human Rights Reader 43. You all should have seen 
the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right 
to Adequate Food, which took place recently in Rome 24-28 March. The 
USA has neither ratified nor supported any of the HR to food work - 
rather they have worked very actively to stop anyone from putting the 
right to food on the international agenda. Despite that, they managed 
to have themselves elected into the Intl. Bureau handling these is-
sues (the IGWG), and have actively prevented more active / knowledge-
able people to be elected to any position within or in support of the 
Bureau. It would be interesting to see how they will behave in the 
future. 

I agree that it is very bad that multinationals like Nestle start to 
play with this, but I think it is more dangerous when the only super-
power left on the international scene is actively obstructing the 
work to really make a HR approach to food as a human right a workable 
and live paradigm. 

A. O.
Norway
mailto:aos@hiak.no
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